Nominated for 2022 San Francisco / Northern California Emmy
In the summer of 2021, the Caldor Fire exploded from a small, slow burning wildland fire into a destructive and terrifying disaster. For six days in late August, reporter Luke Cleary and photojournalist Andrea Esquitini tracked the aggressive Caldor Fire’s advance along Highway 50 into the Tahoe Basin in a series of live shots and packaged reports. This composite of breaking news coverage documents the people and treasured locations forever changed by the fire, and the determined efforts of firefighters to protect lives and property.
Luke Cleary 